After working with his friend, producer Chris Walla, on {|Telekinesis|}' self-titled debut record, then recording
an EP (2010's {|Parallel Seismic Conspiracies|}) by himself, Michael Benjamin Lerner decided to go back to work with Walla on the band's second album. While ...

Keith Whitley's tragic bio easily transfers to TV dramas and celebrity gossip. During the '70s
he gained a reputation as a skillful musician and singer working with top-notch bluegrass bands including {|Ralph Stanley|} and {|J.D. Crowe|}, but by the '80s, ...

Another chunk of Atavistic's long-overdue retrospective of Lydia Lunch's highly influential early work, 8 Eyed
Spy collects the entire recorded output of Lunch's second band. A far more overtly musical group than {|Teenage Jesus & the Jerks|} (which also featured ...

Scott Miller broke in a new {|Game Theory|} lineup on The Big Shot Chronicles (a
revolving-door cast of musicians was something he would get used to over the next decade or so), and if the album lacks the narrative cohesion ...

Sometimes referred to as Birmingham, England's answer to {|Bob Seger|}, with his working-class rock &
roll and tough, British wit, Steve Gibbons' first two releases for MCA were hit-and-miss affairs which garnered him a U.K. hit with {|Chuck Berry|}'s Tulane, ...

Most of America first learned of {|Selena|} because of her tragic murder; accordingly, the posthumous
Dreaming of You was the first record they ever heard. While it isn't her best -- Amor Prohibido is a more consistent release -- it ...